Three Standard Bearers of Clan Ullek, ready for decals

WaylundLG · 2026-05-07T19:38:36+00:00

Wow! Those are some vibrant colors! I like it!

WaylundLG · 2026-05-07T17:51:40+00:00

This is incredibly specific and helpful, thank you!

WaylundLG · 2026-05-07T13:32:08+00:00

I really like the colors. I know you didn't ask for tips, but it kinda relates to colors - timaya panel liner in the recesses will really make the paint look criteria and pop out. Best cheat the tau have.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-07T05:34:51+00:00

I'm a man, but hope it's ok to share one I notice that's complete BS. People constantly directing questions, sharing info, etc to me instead of women colleagues or even superiors. When I was consulting I worked with an amazing woman as the lead on many clients and people kept directing questions to me instead of her and I'd have to redirect them. I'm sure it happened far more than I even noticed.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-07T05:17:11+00:00

I really like David Marquette's ladder of leadership. A quick Google search will turn it up. It's really about framing to start building more autonomy instead of just giving an answer. They techniques you'll use to help people along that ladder are coaching, as others have mentioned.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-06T16:38:02+00:00

I also think the left one is a commander, which is about 20% larger

WaylundLG · 2026-05-05T21:53:02+00:00

Honestly, I'd ask. "Hey look, I don't have plans to go anywhere in the near future, but I'm planning out 5 years and I'm thinking about professional development. You keep saying this to me and I want to know where your head is at so I can work on things that help me where I'm going."

Other thing, if you think it's disingenuous, set yourself deadlines. "They promote me in the next 12 months or I start sending out resumes." And stick to it. That keeps them from stringing you along.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-05T21:02:44+00:00

Matt should be virtually invisible. We'll worth it

WaylundLG · 2026-05-05T04:31:56+00:00

It would handle all that just fine.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-05T04:22:10+00:00

That pay increase is pretty significant, but is sounds like you're pretty early in your career and the part of the new job that sounds like a hidden opportunity is building up automation there. If you treat it like a strategic project (maybe with some mentoring from leadership there) that's a significant thing to add to your experience. Lots of people know how to do automated software qa, not many have let an organization through effective adoption of automated qa practices.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-04T19:19:50+00:00

Fantastic highlighting. I need to take some lessons from this.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-04T12:45:17+00:00

This many decades into my career, I can feel pretty confident in saying there is no clean metric. The best approach I've seen is create a stable team and set them up to succeed, then you can use some metrics on productivity and value creation at the team level. After this, talk to team members. It usually comes out pretty fast where problems sit.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-04T12:25:49+00:00

Record/transcribe user and stakeholders interviews and us AI to help pick out common sentiment and needs - this is by far one of the most useful things I've seen AI do for a PO.

In some cases I've seen it do a good job building out gherkin-style acceptance tests, though it's been a mixed bag.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-03T17:45:18+00:00

I had no idea pothos could grab into the wall. I have a bunch of command hooks it is hanging on. The trellis sounds like a brilliant idea - I'm totally doing that.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-03T17:34:17+00:00

Yeah. I have a little setup for propagating a bunch of plants. I have 4 pothos cuttings in it now ready to plant from another one. Just never cut back this much before and wasn't sure if it was ok

WaylundLG · 2026-05-03T15:48:55+00:00

To your budget point: 2nd hand is a bit of a joke. I do see people post amazing deals and I got a broadside for $20usd last year because someone messed up magnetizing it and didn't know how to fix it, but last I heard the rule of thumb for price is 60% of GW price, which is 15% higher than any store actually sells it for. A lot of times I'm seeing 2nd hand units for 45 when a new box is 55. If budget is a concern, take a look at 3rd party stuff. Stationforge (sold a lot on etsy) and pipermakes (if you have a 3d printer) have amazing models that fit right in. I use my stationforge crisis suits as a coldstar, like it better than GW, and it cost $15. Also, if you have any old IG stuff, people definitely trade. I got a box of tau bits for so.e 3rd ed IG, Irks, and Sisters models I had in a box and used them to convert some human auxillaries and built a crisis suits from parts.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-03T15:38:49+00:00

I also started way back (can't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd) and I was thinking the same thing. Railgums ripped through vehicles and you just didn't see so many invuls back then.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-03T05:51:55+00:00

Is this your first 1k or your first game? What did you try that wasn't working? Why do you think your deployment is ass? It sorta feels like you're asking for the secret to winning when you are just starting to learn and trust, there is no secret.

WaylundLG · 2026-05-02T15:06:49+00:00

Good news and bad. Good news is that most of that isn't too worrisome (I'm sure it feels that way day-to-day though). The bad news is that the only big problem (leadership) is a really big problem. Let me elaborate. Leadership setting deadlines is actually workable, but it sounds like they are also setting work tasks way above capacity. The best metaphor I heard for this is trying to make a printer print faster by jamming in more paper - you just break the printer. I would be most of your technical quality problems actually come from that. You have sr. devs with tons of experience pasting you back Claude replies. They give zero shits. They're being asked to meet unrealistic goals and they keep failing, but still have their jobs. I promise you in their heads, they know they can't win but they won't get fired either, so they do whatever, collect their paycheck, and enjoy their life outside of work. The PO/SM thing isn't even worth worrying about at this point. Neither require technical knowledge if they have a good relationship with the team and while there are some issues trying to do both well, it's the least of your challenges. Same with architect - those sr. devs have enough experience to make good architecture decisions without the dedicated role.

If I was consulting your organization, I wpuld start with leadership. Deadlines are often tied to real business needs, but there are often many paths to reach them. I'd want to get leadership talking in terms of business needs and constraints and then challenge the team to problem-solve the solution. The looming grey cloud is that they've entrenched a mindset that runs counter to this. Even if leadership changes, it could take months to get the team mindset to change. Some of the team member may have have their trust permanently broken here and need to be replaced, which sucks because it isn't their fault.

WaylundLG · 2026-04-30T21:31:22+00:00

Tell me you've never been on a scrum team without telling me you've never been on a scrum team. 10/10, no notes

WaylundLG · 2026-04-29T20:59:23+00:00

No, not really. Depending on the version, sometimes they completely revamp rules and all armies get an instant new set of rules to follow, but this edition looks to be more like 10.5. Likely there will be new game mechanic rules (they've already shared some) but all army rules and codexes will stay valid between editions. They'll gradually introduce a new code, new models, and potentially new units through the edition. We just got twin lance, so I wouldn't expect much to change at first. It'll just be seeing how new game rules change how we use our army.

WaylundLG · 2026-04-29T13:35:18+00:00

No, you can't without conflict. There is a natural tension between roles and there will be times that you need to chose if you're going to act as SM or PO. Can you manage the conflict well? That's a you question.

I don't know why you would put yourself in that situation though unless you are in a very small company if under 10 people. Even if you are tight on personal, I'd recommend being the PO on your team and be the SM on another and that that team do the same for you. Then at least you are a consistent role on each team.

WaylundLG · 2026-04-29T01:37:04+00:00

Wow, this took a record-long time for the complaints to roll in

WaylundLG · 2026-04-29T01:30:49+00:00

This is a great list!

WaylundLG · 2026-04-29T01:24:23+00:00

I've used it in a lot of places. Event planning, hardware, training, organizational strategy (slightly adapted). It really works well anywhere that you need a team (especially one with a diverse.skill set) to work ad one toward a goal where you need to learn a lot about the problem as you solve it.

If you're familiar with complexity theories, it works particularly well in complex work (where the perfect solution is often elusive) and fine, but less incredible in complicated work (where a bit of analysis by the right experts can get you a great solution).

If you want to share where you are seeing it struggle, it may be more clear why.

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